During nearly six decades of activity of Sharif University of Technology, more than 300 educational, research and reference laboratories have been established in this university. Getting to know these laboratories, which were established with the aim of providing educational, research and industrial services to the students and faculty members of this university and other scientific, research and industrial centers of the country, is not without grace for the audience.
The public relations of the university aims to introduce one of these laboratories every week. This week, we have visited the faculty of chemical and petroleum engineering and will get to know the polymer laboratory of this faculty and its facilities.
The Faculty of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of Sharif University of Technology was established in 1345 under the title of Faculty of Chemical Engineering, and almost simultaneously with the establishment of this faculty, the polymer laboratory also started its official activity. This laboratory was established by the efforts of engineer Abdul Hossein Aghajan, one of the prominent professors of that time, and was offered to students in the form of 2 optional courses. Currently, this laboratory is offered as an optional unit for bachelor's degree students and as a mandatory unit for polymer master's students, and about half of the bachelor's and master's degree polymer students take this laboratory unit every year. The polymer laboratory of the Faculty of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering has been equipped with equipment since its establishment, including an extruder machine, a 150 gram injection machine, a polymer film blowing machine, a hot press machine, a granule and powder mixer, an Instron tensile machine with the ability to measure the tensile properties of soft materials to metals. It is also equipped with the ability to measure the melt viscosity of polymers with the capillary tube method. In addition to these equipments, in recent years, other devices including impact test, Melt Flow Index (MFI) measurement, brake pad measurement, salt hardness tester, hydraulic tire curing press, rubber mixing roller, etc. have been added to this laboratory. In addition, various other devices related to the production and shaping of polymers have been purchased in recent years and installed in various laboratories of the faculty, which are currently available for use in the faculty, including the rotating rheometer, rubber curing rheometer, The device for measuring the wear resistance of polymers, the device for measuring the tensile strength of polymers and the device for measuring the piezoelectric properties, the electrospinning device, the twin screw extruder device.
